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by Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus
Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen from the Association for Media Literacy look at 21st Century culture and current events through a media literacy lens. From politics to popular culture, you won't leave an episode thinking quite the same way as you did when you arrived.
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- Sep 24, 202652 min
Meeting GenAI Challenges with Míchílín Ní Threasaigh part 2
This is the second half of Neil Andersen's conversation with Míchílín Ní Threasaigh.It begins with a most valuable description of the anxieties plaguing students and proceeds to consider what pedagogies and policies might be useful in helping them to understand and appreciate GenAI.
- Sep 6, 202650 min
Meeting GenAI Challenges with Míchílín Ní Threasaigh part 1
Our students are suffering in a Generative AI Wilderness. Female students are accessing toxic boyfriend chatbots; writing students are frustrated by sycophantic and coded feedback. What might teachers do to help their students understand and benefit from GenAI affordances?Míchílín Ní Threasaigh teaches in a virtual high school where everyone is online. What has she learned and how might her experiences help us?
- Aug 31, 20261h 2m
Pope Leo's Encyclical on AI with Sr. Rose Pacatte
Pope Leo dropped Magnifica Humanitas, his encyclical addressing the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, on a significant anniversary. Sister Rose Pacatte, a Catholic media literacy educator, joins Carol Arcus, Chelsea Attwell and Neil Andersen from Rome to discuss and highlight the encyclical's messages and meanings for parents and teachers.
- Jul 9, 202639 min
International Conference Gold
Chelsea Attwell, Diana Maliszewski and Carol Arcus reflect on the values of presenting at and attending international conferences. They offer tips for both attendees and presenters.
- Jun 28, 202641 min
The end of the world as we know it Part 2 with Tim King
The second half of Neil's conversation with Tim King.Tim reflects on the rich experiences he has enjoyed in his IT secondments.He also explains his misgivings about new GenAI and digital innovations.Neil endeavours to find pedagogical opporunities in the new media landscape.
- May 27, 20261h 4m
The end of the world as we know it: Part 1
Tim King and Neil Andersen discuss the challenges arising from evolving communications technologies in the mid-2020s; including digital security, GenAI, and quantum computing.How might teachers help their students understand, appreciate and benefit from the recent innovations?
- Feb 11, 202646 min
GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale
You are teaching an asynchronous online course.One of thousands such courses.You discover that one student has engaged a GenAI agent imposter to take the course in their place. The GenAI imposter reads and responds to the course readings; it takes the quizzes; it completes and submits the culminating project.Algorithmically, without any participation from the student.What might this mean for the student? ...for you? ...for your institution?
- Oct 26, 202538 min
Happy Media Literacy Week 2025!
The start of the school year is always exciting. It's also a great time to begin media literacy education because there are so many opportunities. Veteran media literacy educators join host Carol Arcus to describe and discuss their first media literacy lessons of the school year. Listeners will gain great and simple teaching ideas for their own media literacy education.Happy Media Literacy Week!(At The Association for Media Literacy, EVERY week is Media Literacy Week!)
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